The House of Dudley - Paul, Joanne
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Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side--or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dubleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizbeth I, when the family was once again at the center of power, and would do anything to remain there...

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Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side--or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dubleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizbeth I, when the family was once again at the center of power, and would do anything to remain there...
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Joanne Paul, author of The House of Dudley, is a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and early modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes. She lives in Sussex.
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A tour-de-force of Tudor history, as seen through the eyes of a family with a front-row view of almost every major political event in sixteenth-century England. Remarkable Dan Jones, Sunday Times bestselling author of Powers and Thrones